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VinFast, a Vietnamese Electric Vehicle company has barely exported 3 thousand units to North America and has just started constructing a plant in North Carolina that won’t be ready until 2025. But on the day of its Nasdaq listing, it was valued at 85 billion US dollars, making it more valuable than US giants Ford and General Motors. We speak with Ken Foong, Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence to find out what is going on with VinGroup and VinFast.

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Gerakan, won 1 out of 36 seats it contested in at the recent state elections. Datuk Dr Dominic Lau, it's President reviews their performance and their role in the Perikatan Nasional despite being a multi-racial party.

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Mention sovereign funds and names like Norway’s Government Global Pension, Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, and Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional come to mind. Starting next year, Sarawak’s Sovereign Wealth Future Fund will join the mix. We speak with Elsa Satkunasingam, Senior Business Development Advisor, Executive Education, of the Asia School of Business to understand the best practices that go into setting up a sovereign wealth fund.

Mention sovereign funds and names like Norway’s Government Global Pension, Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, and Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional come to mind. Starting next year, Sarawak’s Sovereign Wealth Future Fund will join the mix. We speak with Elsa Satkunasingam, Senior Business Development Advisor, Executive Education, of the Asia School of Business to understand the best practices that go into setting up a sovereign wealth fund.

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The sun continues to shine on Japan, as it recorded an impressive 2nd quarter GDP growth of 6%, driven by surging exports. However, not all is well as the yen continues to fall and the domestic economy remains weak. We speak to Vishnu Varathan, Head of Economics & Strategy at Mizuho Bank for an economic outlook, and whether its central bank will intervene on the Yen.

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Gerakan, won 1 out of 36 seats it contested in at the recent state elections. Datuk Dr Dominic Lau, it's President reviews their performance and their role in the Perikatan Nasional despite being a multi-racial party.

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On paper, DAP was one of the winners of the state elections, winning 46 of the 47 seat they contested in. But what strategy should they adopt for GE16 and what are the lesson learnt from these state polls as PN made significant inroads into Selangor whilst dominating Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu. Liew Chin Tong, DAP secretary-general and Strategist tells us his views whilst weighing in on the longevity of this Unity Government.

The Minister of Education Fadhlina Sidek recently announced that the government is looking to make secondary education mandatory in a bid to curb school drop-outs. How would this policy be implemented? We speak to Shahnaz Al-Sadat, Chairperson of LeapEd Services for her views on how and when this should be rolled out.

Country Garden, one of the largest property developers in China, saw its shares plunge by more than 16 percent after it missed bond payments and warned of multibillion-dollar losses for the first half of the year. Louise Loo of Oxford Economics tells us what options are left for the builder to avoid collapse, and what this could mean for the broader Chinese economy.

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On paper, DAP was one of the winners of the state elections, winning 46 of the 47 seat they contested in. But what strategy should they adopt for GE16 and what are the lesson learnt from these state polls as PN made significant inroads into Selangor whilst dominating Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu. Liew Chin Tong, DAP secretary-general and Strategist tells us his views whilst weighing in on the longevity of this Unity Government.

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